Embedded systems were incorporated into commercial automobiles around the 1970s. At first, these embedded systems were used to control the timing of fuel-injection systems, a substantial improvement ...

Every week, we work with teams from startups to global brands to build custom hardware for them. Some bring clear plans, others just a sketch. Many haven’t defined key features or how the product will ...

Whether a device is a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, every piece of hardware Apple makes needs to go through several prototype and development stages. Here's what that looks like, and what Apple calls each ...

Every product development effort begins with a plan—traditionally, in the form of diagrams such as Leonardo da Vinci’s ornithopter flying-machine drawings, but today, in the form of software ...

The concept of Continuous Integration (CI) is a powerful tool in software development, and it’s not every day we get a look at how someone integrated automated hardware testing into their system.

Electronic control units (ECUs) are vital embedded systems in vehicles; as such they impact numerous functions in a car and therefore must undergo rigorous testing. In any test workflow, ...

Creating hard tech is no walk in the park. The process is complex, the costs are high and the challenges are plentiful. But despite all that, it's still worth pursuing. In this article, we'll take a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. With Agile software development, creative processes are the cornerstone of the framework and ...

Nominal, a provider of a unified, real-time test stack for physical systems, has raised $75m in its Series B funding round to augment its hardware testing capabilities. The round was led by Sequoia ...

In our “hardware development gets serious” news, we’ve recently learned about AllSpice, a startup building hardware development collaboration infrastructure for companies. Hardware developers are ...